A Systolic Array Parallelizing Compiler (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Ping-Sheng Tseng, Ping-Sheng

ISBN 10: 1461288355 / ISBN 13: 9781461288350

Published by Springer, 2011

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• Title: A Systolic Array Parallelizing Compiler (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1461288355
• ISBN 13: 9781461288350
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Widespread use of parallel processing will become a reality only if the process of porting applications to parallel computers can be largely automated. Usually it is straightforward for a user to determine how an application can be mapped onto a parallel machine; however, the actual development of parallel code, if done by hand, is typically difficult and time consuming. Parallelizing compilers, which can gen­ erate parallel code automatically, are therefore a key technology for parallel processing. In this book, Ping-Sheng Tseng describes a parallelizing compiler for systolic arrays, called AL. Although parallelizing compilers are quite common for shared-memory parallel machines, the AL compiler is one of the first working parallelizing compilers for distributed­ memory machines, of which systolic arrays are a special case. The AL compiler takes advantage of the fine grain and high bandwidth interprocessor communication capabilities in a systolic architecture to generate efficient parallel code. xii Foreword While capable of handling an important class of applications, AL is not intended to be a general-purpose parallelizing compiler.